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E. S. DODGE.

BUTTON. No. 388,402. Patented Aug. 28, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 388,402I dated August 28, 1888. Application tiled August 29, 1887. Serial No. 248.221. (No model.)

.T all whom it 101.601/ concern:

Be it known that I, EZRA S. DODGE, a citizen of the AUnited States, residing at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff- Fasteners, of which the following is aspecit'lcation.

My invention relates to that class of cufffasteners which are attached to a cuff-button; and it consists in the improved construction ofthe locking-catch whereby the fastening-pin is secured within the cavity of the hollow post of the button, as hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure 1 is an elevation of myimproved cufffastener. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the button which engages the fastening-pin. Fig. 8 is a transverse section taken in the line x x, Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is a top view of the perforated spring-plate for holding the pin.

In the accompanying (drawings, A is the shoe, Bthe hollow post, and C the head, of the cuff-button. Within the fiaring base cof the hollow post is placed the aringperforated spring-plate D, which serves to clasp the notched end c of the pin E when the said pin is passed through the sleeve and inserted into the cavity b of the hollow post thus serving to securely lock the bnttoned cuff to the sleeve.

means of the perforated disk f, which, being held within the slightly-flaring upper end of the post, forms aseat for the inner edgeof the head C.

I claim as my invention- A cuff-fastener having a shoe, A, hollow post B, provided with a Haring base,a,and the perforated head O, the perforated disk f, the Haring perforated spring-plate D, provided with the perforation d, having the slits e, pin

E, provided with the notch c, supplementary button G, and chain F, connecting the supplementary button to the head g of the pin, sub- 5o i stantially as described.

` EZBA S. DODGE.

Witnesses: i

SOCRATES ScHoLEIELD, JAMES W. WILLIAMS. 

